[NTLUG:Discuss] floppy questions

[Stephen Davidson]

If worse comes to worse, I think my Win98 system still works.  And I may 
be able to resurrect a Linux laptop system with a floppy drive (I think 
a fan just came loose when the screen hinge broke, will be replacing it 
fairly quickly after Christmas).

Regards,
Steve

On 12/09/2010 11:38 AM, Fred James wrote:
> Jay Urish wrote:
>> Should be fat16
>>
>> On 12/9/2010 11:24 AM, Fred James wrote:
>>> I have some 3.5 floppy disk that were made on a Win98SE system, that
>>> I should like to mount and read on a Linux box. But so far I have not
>>> been able to get the filesystem type correct ... any clues would be
>>> appreciated. Thanks
>>> Regards
>>> Fred James
> Attempting to specify 'fat', 'fat16', or 'fat32' results in the message:
> "mount: maybe you meant 'vfat'?"
> Specifying 'vfat' results in the message "mount: /dev/fd0: can't read
> superblock"
> Does that mean it is hopeless? Is there some other way to get the data
> off these disk?
> Regards
> Fred James
>
>
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